Product Description: Born and raised in southern Oregon farm country, Ellie Spaneker flees her home and abusive husband, unaware she's being tracked by an ex-cop in the hire of her vengeful father-in-law. In Portland, retired homicide detective Skin Kadash fills his idle days drinking coffee and searching for Eager Gillespie, a teen runaway of special interest as the only witness in a troublesome and long-unsolved murder...read more

Product Description: Popular television host Jeff Corwin takes listeners on a gripping journey around the world to meet the animals threatened by extinction. It's no secret that our planet is in crisis. Environmental threats such as climate change, pollution, habitat loss, and land degradation threaten the survival of thousands of plant and animal species...read more

Product Description: In this prequel to Crown Duel, teenage Shevraeth is invited by a king his own age to train in command at the cavalry academy in Marloven Hess, known for its violent history. Shevraeth is reluctant to leave his own comfortable and civilized Remalna for this warrior kingdom, except that Remalna is slowly becoming less civilized and more violent under a bad government...read more

Product Description: For eight months in 2008, US Army Capt. Matt Zeller served as an embedded combat adviser with the Afghan security forces in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Watches Without Time is a compilation of the emails and letters he sent home to family and friends during that period—so that, as he writes in the preface, "should anything have ever happened to me, they would know what I went through...read more

Product Description: Welcome to the territory. Leave your metal behind, all of it. The bugs will eat it, and they'll go right through you to get it. Don't carry it, don't wear it, and for God's sake, don't come here if you've got a pacemaker. The bugs showed up about 50 years ago—self-replicating, solar-powered, metal-eating machines...read more

Product Description: Eerily attuned to one another, twins Regina and Renata are so identical that even their mother can't tell them apart. Then tragedy strikes: A vicious attack leaves one twin dead and the other so traumatized that she turns totally inward, incapable of telling anyone what happened or even who she is...read more

Product Description: That’s what everyone wants to know. The kids at the exclusive boarding school Briar Academy can’t stop talking about how three students went up to the cliff—but only two came back alive. Was it a hazing ritual gone awry? Or was it something more sinister?The police want to know—because Hayden Applegate, Briar’s big man on campus, may be on the hook for murder...read more

After a narrow escape from Deadweather Island, Egg and his slightly deranged partner Guts head for the remote New Lands. They’re in search of the lost Okalu tribe, who hold the key to the mysterious treasure map that Egg can’t decipher. But the ruthless Roger Pembroke is hard on Egg’s trail, and the New Lands are full of new enemies—against which our heroes’ only weapons are their brains, their courage…and the two dozen swear words Guts just memorized in the local tongue.They’re going to need help. But who can they trust? Is Kira, the beautiful and heavily armed Okalu refugee, their ally—or their enemy? Is Pembroke’s daughter Millicent on Egg’s side—or her father’s? Why on earth is the notorious pirate Burn Healy being so nice to them? And the biggest question of all: What shocking secret is Egg about to discover in the shadow of an ancient Okalu temple?

Product Description: Mike Lupica presents the third book in his NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Game Changers series, now in paperback!Ben and his friends, the Core Four Plus One, are so excited to play in their town's All-Star Baseball league. But in the first game of the season Ben gets hit by a pitch...read more

After narrowly escaping the New Lands, Egg is determined to take down ruthless slave trader Roger Pembroke. But war is brewing among the Blue Sea's pirate gangs—and Egg, Guts, and Kira are running out of time to find the Fire King’s treasure and free the Okalu slaves from the silver mine on Sunrise.Can they save Kira’s people before Sunrise is plundered by Ripper Jones’s pirates? Will Burn Healy save the day, or has the legendary captain finally met his match? And will Egg ever win back Millicent from the annoyingly handsome Cyril?This explosive conclusion to Egg’s journey delivers the ultimate combination of humor, heart, and white-knuckle adventure.

Product Description: A stunning middle-grade debut—full of heart, humor, and nonstop action.It's tough to be 13, especially when somebody's trying to kill you. Not that Egg's life was ever easy, growing up on sweaty, pirate-infested Deadweather Island with no company except an incompetent tutor and a pair of unusually violent siblings who hate his guts...read more

Product Description: From wonderful storyteller and author of the bestselling phenomenon The Christmas Box comes a holiday novel based on the story of Joseph and the coat of many colors, now available from Encore for a great value!Joseph Jacobson is the twelfth of thirteen siblings, all of whom are employed by their father’s successful Colorado advertising company...read more

Product Description: After she leaves her career as a magician to join the FBI, Agent Jessica Blackwood is charged by her boss, who has learned of her past, with tracking down an elusive serial killer and must use her gifts to find and stop the murderer before she becomes the next victim.

Product Description: [Children's Fiction (Ages 10-12) ][Read by Fred Berman]Lincoln Peirce continues to thrill readers with his hilarious series. -- The sixth 'Big Nate' book in the New York Times bestselling series by Lincoln Peirce is a laugh-out-loud must-read starring the one and only cartooning genius, king of detention, and Cheez Doodle connoisseur, Nate Wright...read more